The Asus Z97-Pro Gamer is one of the best Z97 boards on the market as it features pretty much all of the features a Gamer needs, it’s damn good overclocker and it’s paired with some brilliant software. All of this also comes to you (rather surprisingly) at a reasonable price…

Well it looks like MSI have done it again; we were extremely impressed with last year’s Z87-G45 GAMING, but MSI have taken that Platinum award winning design and improved it. Therefore the MSI Z97 GAMING 5 goes straight to the top of the best Gaming motherboard chart.

To say that the ASRock Fatal1ty Z97X Killer motherboard was a great motherboard, would probably be an understatement. Not because it’s equipped with more features than you can shake a stick at, but because it’s got pretty much all of the features a Gamer needs…

The MSI Z87-G45 GAMING maybe missing some of the options found on its bigger brother the Z87-GD65 GAMING, but to be honest that’s not necessarily a bad thing as it grants you a saving of around £40. All the great qualities of the GD65 are still present here though, making the MSI Z87-G45 GAMING a real steal at around £120.